[Vision2020] What's up with Weber & Lambert?

[Bruce and Jean Livingston]

I notice that John Weber and Bill Lambert have signs that are nearly identical, and which appear in most of the same yards together, and in some big commercial development areas, too, like the hill that got scraped flat between Rodeo Drive and McKinley between US 95 and Polk (Moscow Building Supply area).

What is interesting is that Weber and Lambert also are the ONLY TWO candidates, OUT OF FOURTEEN running for council and mayor, that refused to answer and submit the vision2020 candidate questionnaire.  

http://vision2020.moscow.com/Election/

So the apparent coordination of their campaign becomes more obviously true.  

More ominously, though, those campaigns also appear to be designed to keep the electorate from knowing what they think about:  water conservation methods; growth in new subdivisions; planning and maintaining parks; downtown zoning and schools; ball fields; negotiating with our police and dealing with their attempts to unionize; planning and maintaining transportation needs in the city; and the Third Street bridge.

What are Weber and Lambert trying to hide?  The reasonable and topical questions, which they refused to answer, are reprinted below.

I had been comtemplating supporting one of them.  Unless answers appear, that is now out of the question for me.  Candidates who refuse to answer these reasonable questions do not deserve your vote.

Bruce Livingston

1. Moscow's police officers recently approached the city with a request to form a union. The city refused. Was that the right choice - why or why not? What should the city do now?

2. Which schools, if any, (K-12, colleges/universities, commercial schools) should Moscow's zoning code allow downtown in the central business district, and under what conditions, if any? Explain why.

3. Please list the changes in city regulations or policy, if any, that you favor to lessen the depletion of our aquifer: for example, a stronger tiered rate structure, required use of treated effluent water for irrigation in parks, required installation of water-conserving designs in new structures, limitations on building permits, or any other changes?

4. Should a bridge be built over Paradise Creek to connect Third Street between Hayes and Mountainview Road? If no, why not? If yes, should that bridge be built for use only by bicycles and pedestrians or should the bridge be designed for motor vehicles? Are there ways to improve the city's approach to planning and maintaining our transportation needs?

5. What are your views about the proposed city ballfields on Palouse River Drive? To ensure that neighborhood parks are created in new subdivisions, should development of dedicated parkland there occur simultaneously with the initial development of the subdivision? Are there ways to improve the city's approach to planning and maintaining city parks?

6. Please include biographical information about yourself and any other message or contact information you want to share with Moscow voters.

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